Connecticut western news., 1887-07-13
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condens cd from Many Redundant Columns.


 Interesting Paragraphs Condens cd from Many Redundant Columns. An association to bo known as the Dart mouth Alumni Association of the AmericaIa Institute has been organized.
 -Petroieum has been discovered near Nacog- dochcs, Tex, at depth of S5 feet. Six weils have been opened.
 Paul Giacophesser is g prosperous whole sale fruit merchant and the foremost ltalianr citizen of BirminS ham, Ala. En his youth hes served the time required by law As tho Italian army and afterward enlstel secenI,time for five years. After two years service. however. he left for America without taking tlss tynuble tt get a discharge. This was seventeeA years sgo.' Some two months ago he went back, to, collect aicgacy that had teen left him. antE now he has bc.'n arrested for desertion and imprisoned.
 The steamship Lewiston, of the BossDn aud Bangor Line, was eslly damaged by coL- Esion with a schooner q. sea-
 Saturday Mrs Lydia Wilson of Lafayette, Ind., secured a divorce from her husbandr Austin r. Wilson. On Tuesday shey were re- married.
 -S. Louis is excited over the discovery that the COWS Iu several large dairics whlehn supply the city with milk are afflicted wltis 2leIiro- pneGiuonia.
 Twelve tramps who terrorized the fasners near Canton, O., have Eeen convicted and ssn- fenced to "a years imprisonment under the nsw Tramp law.
 While Mrs Frank Bautsch of Sand Prairie, H., was engaged in cleaning horsepower feed mill that her usband operating heE hand was caught and drawn in between the rvl-ers and horribly crushed. Mir. Bautsch stopped the machinery, and being unable to- draw his wife's hand out, cut the mangled n,tasbcr from the arm at the wrist Mrs. Bssss-h drove to town an submitted to re- dmRatstfon of the arm by physicians and re- turned home over rough road, riding four teen miles with tlIo mercury nearly 10O0 ln the shade.
 --Natban D. Pratt, formerly treasurer of th, Reading Mass.) Savings Bank, who was senss fenced to State prison in 1894 for embezzis- msEt, has been pardoned.
 Gabriel Grobe, EiRlander employed in the Buriess Mill at Marquette, Mich., felt against a circular saw and was cut in two, di- asonally, from the Hip te the left shoulder, the heart b, ing, biseeted-
 The jury in tlre Wilson wife murder case at Albion, N. Y., has been completed. The prosecution furnished sensation by present. ing a witness to whom Wilson confessed that he had killed his wife hy smotherins her with . towel.
 Gov Gordon of Georgia has commuted the death sentence of William Holman to imprison dcnce he was convicted of the murder of Ma tilda Cudger having confessed that their con- fession was false.
 Daniel Emmons, who was treasurer of Ev- erett, Mass, until seven years sgo, when he fled, leaving deficiency in his account of about 30,0OO, has just died in California. Nothing had been h. ard of him until the an nouncement of his death was received. He was 75 years old.
 Mrs. Isabel Lyon, wife of Dr. Randolph Lyon, who in a fit of passion shot and killed Rhode Moe at Towanda, Pa, and then cOni- unittp6 S11icide tnOk Sfrychnlne anl died great agony three hours afterward. She was Dr. Lyons second wife, and was thirty y-five years of age. She had no children Gri over the death of Moe and the suicide of h.r husband drove her to the deed.
 Gen. L. W. Heath of Grand Rapids, Mich, has been arrested on capias issued at the in stance of Robert J. Walker, who aims SIG, 900 damages for the alienation of his wife's affec- tions. Gen. Heath is prominent citizen and politician. He succeeded Zacharlah Chandler as member of the Republican National Com mittee for Michigan, and has held tie posi- ton for the last six years. He released on bond for S5,000.
 Tho creditors of Maurice Rosenfeld 6 Co.,, the suspended Chicago wheat firm, have agreed to accept 25 cents on the dollar.
 The Kansas wheat crop will be only 25 per cent. of that harvested three years ago. The corn crop will exceed 25O, GOO, 900 bushels. Two unpublished letters from Luther to Brenz, and five from Melancthon to the Sua- bian rcformer Lacbman, have been found in an old desk in school at H iIbronn.
 Jacob Fischer, who lived in Vine street boarding house in Cincinnati, went to the roof to get cool, and was shot dead by policeman who mistook him for a burglar.
 Pleas Terry, an old negro prisoner in the Nashville. Tenn, police station, tried to hang small boy prisoner with Q rope made from . blanket. Terry wus found to be insane.
 During a fight between band of ssWhite - ,1ofo and two hrof Nor, shoes at Marengo, Crawford county, Ind, one of the Naushees was shot fatally, the other beaten until nearly dead, and several reguIa- tors killed and wounded.
 A track laborer was killed by lightning at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
 Gangs of men laying rails for rival street car companies at Lincoln, Neb, q1arrelled for possession of the street, and revolvers were drawn. Several men were arrested, among them John Fitzgerald, President of the Irish National League, who is a stockholder in one of the companies.
 The hot spell doubled the death rate in Bunalo.
 Chicago is alarmed over the formation of < = hard coal ring.
 The Salt Lake Tribune denounces the Mormon article, recently published, pretend ing to abolish polygamy as a fraud and a fhsm.
 One of the best gas wells ever opened in the West was s ruck near the First National Bank iii Port Huron, Mich.
 Burglars cleared out all the valuables and money from a Beacon street r, sdence in Bos- ton without disturbing the inmates.
 The coal barons arc persisting in their ef- forts to raise the price of coal in Chicago.
 Forty five young ladies took the veil aud retired from the world at Malinkxordt Con- vent, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
 Mir. Grimley. an atronaut, and his com papion in a balloon ascension at Portland Me, were carried out to sea by the wind, bu were rescued by the yacht Mermaid.
 The Societies of Christian Endeavor hay, begun their annual convention at Sarat ga.
 An inspection of the work in progress or the great bridge over tho Hudson at PouGh keepsie, N Y was made by the American So ciety of Civil Engin. CTS before starting for their convention ID the Catskills
 A number of new cases of yellow fever are reported at Key West.
 -.alcyon, the wenty-thousand-do dollar sta, lion belonging to Eiizur Smiths stock farm q Ct. Burlington, Mass, died of inflammation of the bowels.
 The Board of Officers of the Cathol, Knights of Am. rca, in session at St. Louis have elected the Right Rev. Francis K Jans sens, Bishop of NatchcZ, as Spiritual Adviser and Frank Johnson, of Jackson, Miss, a Legal Adviser.
 -Henton Miller, Treasurer of Perry county Ind, is a dcfsulter to the extent of S67, 900 His wher abouts are unknown. His predeces ST is serving a term in the penitcntiary for. similar offence.
 John McGinnis shot and killed b, William Andt rson at Marquette, Mich. be cause he remonstrated with the latter for tn careless handling of loaded gun in 8 crowt of children.
 A young seamstress giving the name o Miss Shirley E. Grove, who has been employed in the family of Dr. c. c. Mum of Chicago committed snicide because life had proved to, great struggle for her.
 Victor Costello, the 1S-year-old son of tn Rev. H. c. E. Costello, was killed at Greer Bay, Wis, by the premature explosion of cannon.